Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:45:43 -0800 (PST) From: "Richard J. Dawes" <rjdawes@physics.ucsd.edu> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Musings about tracking FreeBSD... Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990322132540.17952E-100000@huntington> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903221142550.414-100000@guru.phone.net>
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Hi! How about if you write a script that gets a list of ports you've installed (or just ones you worry about). Then it goes through your mail from the "cvs-all" mailing-list, and adds those regarding your list of ports to a file (sorted to taste), discarding the rest. Run nightly, or whenever you make world. A quick scan of the output should indicate the ports you might wish to upgrade. Might not be too hard in PERL. Just an idea... Good luck! --Rich On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Mike Meyer wrote: > [...] > However, that brings up yet *another* level of problem. Even if you > follow the correct procedures completely (or at least as completely as > they have been specified here), you can still wind up with broken > binaries from the /ports tree. In fact, the first time I did a system > update, I did exactly that: update the source tree, build the world, > install the world, build a new kernel, install the new kernel, run > mergemaster, and reboot. Everything worked fine. Then I dumped / & > /usr to disk and tried to burn a CD-ROM of those dumps for archival > purposes - only to have cdrecord die in the middle with an illegal > system call. Rebuilding cdrecord solved the problem, but this > illustrates that the recommended procedure is incomplete - you need to > reinstall all ports/packages as well, right? Is there a tool that > inspects /var/db/pkg to automate that process? > [...] ======================================== Richard J. Dawes rdawes@ucsd.edu ======================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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